Laurence Bowers had 24 points and 11 rebounds in his final home game, contributing to a rough evening for old coach Mike Anderson's first appearance as a visitor and helping Missouri finish unbeaten at home with a 93-63 rout over Arkansas on Tuesday night.

Fellow senior Jabari Brown helped finish off the Razorbacks early with 13 of his 23 points in a dominant first half with the Tigers (22-8-11-6 SEC) leading 48-22. The third senior, Alex Oriakhi, had 10 points and eight rebounds and topped 1,000 career rebounds.

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BJ Young had 27 points for Arkansas (18-12, 9-8), which shot just 31 percent in the first half while going 1 for 15 from 3-point range. The Razorbacks surrendered a season high in points.

Missouri finished 17-0 at home for its second unbeaten slate in five years. The Tigers shot 58 percent in the first half and 57 percent the rest of the way.

The Tigers lost by three points at Arkansas last month, but seized control of the rematch early. They fed off fiery coach Frank Haith, who had to be restrained from confronting Anderson during a stoppage of play before and then toward the end of the half waved his arms to prod a sellout crowd.

The halftime deficit was by far the largest for Arkansas, easily topping the previous worst of 17 points at South Carolina. The Razorbacks lost that one by 21, and also fell on the road by 17 at Florida and 18 at Vanderbilt.

Anderson finished a five-year run at Missouri with three straight NCAA appearances, including the Elite Eight in 2009, before jumping to Arkansas where he had been a longtime assistant under Nolan Richardson. He held off making his first appearance as long as possible during the pre-game and was greeted by a chorus of boos as he crossed the court accompanied by a state trooper, then booed even louder when he was introduced.

Missouri was a basket shy of matching its season-best scoring total for the half, going 5 for 9 from 3-point range.

The Razorbacks, which are next-to-last in the SEC at 30 percent on 3-pointers, missed their first 12 from long range before Madracus Wade ended the drought with 4:04 left in the half. The hole was so deep Anderson left Clarke in long enough to get his third foul.